@article{ref1,
title="The construction of community indexes of mental health and social and mental well-being and their application to New York City",
journal="Evaluation and program planning",
year="2000",
author="Siegel, Carole and Laska, Eugene and Haugland, Gary and O'Neill, Dave and Cohen, Neal and Lesser, Michael",
volume="23",
number="3",
pages="315-327",
abstract="The paper provides a rationale and the development steps for construction of community level measures of the &quot;well-being&quot; of persons with mental illness and the &quot;social and mental well-being&quot; of a community as a whole. Both indexes are based on a conceptual model that links mental health outcomes to domains of influence of socio-economic conditions, needs, and supports. Factors are given that describe each domain and a method is suggested to select and assign importance weights to indicators that describe the factors. A mathematical methodology is provided to combine the selected indicators into a single index value. The aggregation rule is based on desirable principles of an index, on aggregated domain values and on input/output ratios that link domains: needs to socio-economic conditions, supports to needs and outcomes to supports. The application of the method to New York City is described. For each index, its values, domain values and input/output ratios are reported for 1991-1996<p />",
language="",
issn="0149-7189",
doi="10.1016/S0149-7189(00)00017-3",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0149-7189(00)00017-3"
}